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Flexible, Transparent Supercapacitors Could Pave Way To E-PaperA prototype high-performance device uses a novel architecture of carbon nanotubes and metal nanowires set in indium oxide films to temporarily store large amounts of electrical energy for release when needed.Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 6 Apr 2009 | 6:00 pm Surveillance Vehicles Take Flight Using Alternative EnergyNearly undetectable from the ground, unmanned aerial vehicles are widely used by the military to scan terrain for possible threats and intelligence. Now, fuel cell powered UAVs are taking flight to help tactical decision-makers gather critical information more efficiently... and more quietly. This latest technology merges two separate efforts -- UAV technology and fuel cell systems.Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 6 Apr 2009 | 6:00 pm People Will Make Healthier Choices If Restaurants Provide Nutritional Data, Study FindsAs more and more Americans eat meals outside the home, the country also faces an epidemic of obesity. An association between eating out and weight-related diseases has led to demands for nutritional labeling of restaurant foods. A new study examines the potential benefits of such labeling.Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 6 Apr 2009 | 6:00 pm Sports Drink Consumption Can Cause Tooth Erosion, Study FindsWhile sipping on sports drinks all day may provide an energy boost, this popular practice is also exposing people to levels of acid that can cause tooth erosion and hypersensitivity, dental researchers have found.Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 6 Apr 2009 | 6:00 pm Cancer Mutations In The Heart Of Gene RegulationResearchers have identified a new cancer gene -- one that is common to many cancers and affects the most basic regulation of our genes. The new example -- a gene on the X chromosome called UTX -- is found in 10 percent of cases of multiple myeloma and eight percent of esophageal cancers. When "tumor suppressor genes" such as this are inactivated, other genes can run riot.Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 6 Apr 2009 | 6:00 pm Dwarf In The Elfin Forests: Tiniest Frog In South America’s Andes MountainsIt fits on a fingertip: Noblella pygmaea is a midget frog, the smallest ever found in the Andes and among the smallest amphibians in the world. Only its croaking was to be heard from the leaves on the mossier ground of the "elfin forests" in the highlands of Manu National Park, before German and Peruvian herpetologists discovered the tiny little thing in south-eastern Peru.Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 6 Apr 2009 | 6:00 pm Missing Enzyme Conveys Major Heart Protection In Pre-clinical WorkMice born without a certain enzyme can resist the normal effects of a heart attack and retain nearly normal function in the heart's ventricles and still-oxygenated heart tissue, according to a new study.Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 6 Apr 2009 | 3:00 pm Yeast Infections Worsening: Rapidly Mutating Yeast Causing More InfectionsDuring the recent years yeasts have been causing more and more infections in humans. One of them can mutate surprisingly quickly by reorganizing its chromosomes. This enables this yeast to tolerate higher doses of anti-fungal medicine.Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 6 Apr 2009 | 3:00 pm Genes That Make Bacteria Make Up Their MindsHow do single celled bacteria living as part of a complex community called a biofilm "decide" between different physiological processes, such as movement or producing the "glue" that forms the biofilm? A leading expert explains it is important to understand how biofilms form as they are often the basis of chronic infections and also of bioremediation processes.Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 6 Apr 2009 | 3:00 pm Simulations And Ancient Magnetism Suggest Mantle Plumes May Bend Deep Beneath Earth's CrustNew computer simulations, paleomagnetism and plate motion histories reveal how hotspots, centers of erupting magma that sit atop columns of hot mantle that were once thought to remain firmly fixed in place, in fact move beneath Earth's crust.Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 6 Apr 2009 | 3:00 pm Bottled Water Carries Hidden Cost to EarthOur growing thirst for bottled water is bad for the environment, say researchers.Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 6 Apr 2009 | 1:10 pm Ice bridge holding Antarctic ice shelf cracks upOSLO (Reuters) - An ice bridge which had apparently held a vast Antarctic ice shelf in place during recorded history shattered on Saturday and could herald a wider collapse linked to global warming, a leading scientist said.Source: Reuters: Science News | 6 Apr 2009 | 1:06 pm Write the Future: Is Your Great Grandchild a Robot?Who are your children's children? Individuals? Or cells of the super-organism? Or might they be both...?Source: Livescience.com | 6 Apr 2009 | 1:01 pm Taiwan researchers say invent quake sensing toolTAIPEI (Reuters) - A research team at Taiwan's top university has rolled out a tiny low-budget device that can sense earthquakes within 30 seconds, enough time to issue crucial disaster warnings, the lead inventor said Monday.Source: Reuters: Science News | 6 Apr 2009 | 12:56 pm Biotechnology boom raises security fearsCASABLANCA (Reuters) - As rapid advances in biotechnology make it easier to develop and produce deadly organisms, experts are calling for better industry oversight to stop that progress benefiting criminals and terrorists.Source: Reuters: Science News | 6 Apr 2009 | 12:38 pm Biotechnology boom raises security fears (Reuters)Reuters - As rapid advances in biotechnology make it easier to develop and produce deadly organisms, experts are calling for better industry oversight to stop that progress benefiting criminals and terrorists.Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 6 Apr 2009 | 12:22 pm Saudi taps reserves to boost economy (AFP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 6 Apr 2009 | 12:00 pm Earthquake strikes central ItalyMore than one hundred thousand people experienced severe or strong shaking during this morning's tremors, geologists say Rescue teams are searching for survivors after this morning's earthquake in central Italy, which has claimed at least 27 lives and destroyed or damaged thousands of homes, churches and other buildings. The earthquake struck 60 miles north east of Rome at 2.32am British time and is estimated to have been at a depth of 6.2 miles. The US Geological Survey (USGS) recorded the earthquake at magnitude 6.3, and said it was the result of movement along a fault line running north west to south east in the Apennine mountains. The USGS estimates that a population of 68,000 in L'Aquila will have experienced severe shaking, and ranked the potential damage to structures in the area as "heavy". A further 62,000 people are estimated to have felt strong or very strong shaking, with a moderate to heavy impact on buildings in the regions affected. The dense populations of Rome and Naples would have felt only light tremors from the earthquake, the geologists say. A magnitude 6.9 earthquake occurred 150 miles southeast of this morning's earthquake on 23 November 1980, with an estimated population of 252,000 exposed to severe shaking. The earthquake killed 2,483 people. In 1997, a magnitude 6 earthquake struck 50 miles north-northwest of this morning's quake, killing 11 and injuring more than 100. It destroyed around 80,000 homes in the Marche and Umbria regions. guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
Source: Evolution, genetics, medicine, physics & astronomy news | guardian.co.uk | 6 Apr 2009 | 10:22 am UK biodiversity still in declineConservationists criticise the government for failing to provide the resources to protect dwindling species.Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 6 Apr 2009 | 10:16 am Hurricane Season 2008 (weather.com)weather.com -Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 6 Apr 2009 | 10:05 am Security cameras clue to fireballSecurity cameras in Northern Ireland may shed some light on the cause of a massive fireball in the sky on Sunday.Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 6 Apr 2009 | 8:49 am Despite Warnings, North Korea Launches Rocket (Time.com)Time.com - Ignoring warnings from the U.S. and east Asian neighbors for Pyongyang to stand down, North Korea launched an intercontinental rocket on Sunday, saying it bore nothing more than a communications satelliteSource: Yahoo! News: Science News | 6 Apr 2009 | 8:40 am Volunteers help salamanders avoid roadway massacre (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 6 Apr 2009 | 2:05 am Blubbery 'researchers' lend fin to climate science (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 6 Apr 2009 | 1:22 am Why is science important?In this week's show we ask, why is science important? Our guest, teacher and filmmaker Alom Shaha, expresses his passion for the subject. He has been spreading the gospel of science through his website whyscience.co.uk where a host of fellow educators and scientists explain on camera why they think science is important. In a recent blog on our site, Alom revealed why he decided to make a film that would help science teachers persuade their pupils to sit up and take notice. In the podcast, he tells us what he thinks about the way science is currently taught. We also speak to a doctor who climbs Mount Everest in the name of medicine. Mike Grocott tells us about Xtreme Everest, a project by a team of doctors at University College London to study the effects of high altitude and low oxygen on the human body. The information will be used to improve the survival chances of intensive care patients. We discuss the latest Guardian Science Book Club title The Strangest Man, by Graham Farmelo, on the peculiar life of quantum genius Paul Dirac. And finally, the newsjam reveals a machine that could put scientists out of business, chicks that can do arithmetic, and robots controlled by thought alone. Don't forget to ... • Comment below... Source: Evolution, genetics, medicine, physics & astronomy news | guardian.co.uk | 5 Apr 2009 | 11:46 pm
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